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Will Tattersdill
@tattersdill.bsky.social
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Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
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volberg.bsky.social
Its about minerals in Greenland? In Trumps fever dream maybe, in reality physics and economics win. Thread via @CRUDEOIL231.

Exploring and mining in the Arctic is a literal hellscape. The constraints are insane and the costs to overcome 'em are mooning way past imagination. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
What's the reason, given or actual, for the police not to be in their HQ?
January 7, 2026 at 10:13 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
I get that we're saying anything we can to move the conversation away from the paedophile ring, but this is still an objectively insane headline which shows how far we have drifted into the evil mirror universe
January 7, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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colinmurray.bsky.social
Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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netw3rk.bsky.social
The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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laprofmme.bsky.social
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
On #enshittification, this is what the Guardian website looks like on my PC at the mo. The actual newspaper is the dark blue line in the middle (it doesn't change size when you scroll)
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
The hardest thing about leaving Birmingham has been seeing the city as it appears in the national news. This is just so deeply embarrassing www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
What happened next: Maggots, rats and growing despair – a year of the Birmingham bin strike
Action began in January, before an all-out strike in March. For locals, the flytipping, vermin, maggots and mess are taking a huge environmental and emotional toll
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
I want to destroy the notion that STEM, humanities and arts, are separate units of knowledge and skill. And if you do one, you can't do other. I am a geologist, professional artist and trained in international relations. They all complement each other.
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13d
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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andrecarrington.bsky.social
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick!

Uh, no. I don’t think I will.
sillycentrist.bsky.social SillyCentrist @sillycentrist.bsky.social · 17d
Figure out how to use it. Ostrich mode will help no one.
December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
tattersdill.bsky.social
Welcome to academia in 2025. The bar is in hell
December 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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parkermolloy.com
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. David Brooks in the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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airedmania.bsky.social
No Carnegie Hall, no Rockefeller Center, no big ass museum with jaw dropping architecture, just Zuckerberg buying half of Hawaii for reasons
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
I'm becoming radicalised by the day I swear
Guardian headline reporting that only 3% of artists back opt-out plan for AI industry ("only 3%" angrily circled). Subheading reports Liz Kendall saying that there is "no clear consensus on issue" (also angrily circled)
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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gifcon.bsky.social
✨GIFCon is back for 2026! ✨
We’re very excited to launch the Call for Papers for GIFCon 2026, with the theme “Technologies of the Fantastic”
You can find out more here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
December 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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komaniecki.bsky.social
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
tattersdill.bsky.social
Wait are there still faculties which have lounges
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 24d
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.
December 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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zooko2.bsky.social
Wtf. I just carefully read this entire interview with Frances Allen, only to find out at the end that it wasn’t really an interview with her, but was AI generated. “Vox Meditantis” and “Bob Lynn” have lied to me and I will not read their words again.
December 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
tattersdill.bsky.social
This guy's political party has a name I just know it, it's on the tip of my tongue
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
Reminder* — today is the deadline for proposals for the 2026 conference of @thebsls.bsky.social

www.bsls.ac.uk/conference20...
Conference 2026 – Strathclyde – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM